Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they
still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of
comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and
move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex,
gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain,
cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a
survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in
farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of
his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last
decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised
thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the
beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map
of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic
conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.
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